I could feel Thrackles's muscles stiffen.

The flesh of animals slaughtered whilst under considerable depression of vital energy (as from previous bleeding) has a diminished tendency to stiffen after death, the feebleness of this tendency being in proportion to the degree of depression.

One immediate result of the fire and of the suspicions attached to its origin was to stimulate recruiting in the Dominion and stiffen the resolve of the Canadian people to do their utmost to aid the success of British arms at the European front.

"It will stiffen your nerve.

Then suddenly he saw her body stiffen; her hands flew to her breast.

She felt his arm stiffen as from head to foot he grew rigid.

They stiffen if they stay a whole night on the cross.

The girl's eyes of scornful enquiry made her stiffen instinctively.

In the very midst of that fury she felt Arizona stiffen and freeze; the snarling stopped; his nerveless arm fell away, and she was allowed to stagger to her feet.

V. render hard &c adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust^. Adj.

To those who are in love with Mr. W.J. LOCKE'S incurable romanticism or who have a taste for heroines that "stiffen in a sudden stroke of passion looking for the instant electrically beautiful," let me commend The Red Planet (LANE).

A queer, sickening thrill went through me, and I felt all the men about me, stiffen and go rigid with intensity.

but it made me stiffen.

The feeling seemed to stiffen me, as I sat, and my head appeared to tighten, as if all the scalp had grown tense.

I am quite sure it is a mistake; it tends to tire and stiffen the hand.

Her hands shut hard at her sides, her body seemed to stiffen and rise, then she turned formidably with the fires of slumbering vengeance burning in her wonderful eyesvengeance for her mother, for her lover, for her rescuer, for herselfshe turned slowly toward the cowering nobleman and said distinctly: "I accuse the Baron de Heidelmann-Bruck.

Sharp gusts of piercing wind drove the cold mist along, and as the temperature fell in the late afternoon the slush of the roads began to stiffen, and the fog froze where it gathered.

but some souls we see Grow hard, and stiffen with adversity: Yet these by fortune's favours are undone; Resolved into a baser form they run, And bore the wind, but cannot bear the sun.

The brother knew the tone, had known it from childhood, and the girl, glancing back on him, was pleased to see him stiffen.

He would lag and then stiffen back his shoulders and draw in his chin and force a trifle more energy into his steps.

The heart of the dethroned queen bled from a thousand wounds, but she did not allow these wounds to stiffen into callousness, nor her heart to harden under the broad scars of sorrow that had ceased to bleed.

He seemed to stiffen, and all he could do was to hold out his hand and whisper: "Thank you very much, papa!"

If fruit is desired to be in the jelly, it must be put in when the jelly begins to stiffen in the mould.

" Walt's face reddened, and the striking-muscles of his arms and shoulders seemed to stiffen and grow tense.

The wind came; we could hear the sails snap and stiffen as it overhauled the fleet behind us.